vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-17595: ncurses -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 14, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ncurses
Title
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